Senate Amendment 5240 PAG LIN 1 1 Amend House File 2332, as amended, passed, and 1 2 reprinted by the House, as follows: 1 3 #1. Page 3, by inserting after line 11 the 1 4 following: 1 5 <Sec. . Section 726.5, Code 2005, is amended to 1 6 read as follows: 1 7 726.5 NONSUPPORT. 1 8 A person, who being able to do so, fails or refuses 1 9 to provide support for the person's child or ward 1 10 under the age of eighteen years for a period longer 1 11 than one year or in an amount greater than five 1 12 thousand dollars commits nonsupport; provided that no 1 13 person shall be held to have violated this section who 1 14 fails to support any child or ward under the age of 1 15 eighteen who has left the home of the parent or other 1 16 person having legal custody of the child or ward 1 17 without the consent of that parent or person having 1 18 legal custody of the child or ward. Support, for the 1 19 purposes of this section, means any support which has 1 20 been fixed by court order, or, in the absence of any 1 21 such order or decree, the minimal requirements of 1 22 food, clothing or shelter. Nonsupport is a class "D" 1 23 felony.> 1 24 #2. Title page, line 5, by inserting after the 1 25 word <program> the following: <, nonsupport of a 1 26 child or ward, providing for and making criminal 1 27 penalties applicable,>. 1 28 #3. By renumbering as necessary. 1 29 1 30 1 31 1 32 DOUG SHULL 1 33 KEITH A. KREIMAN 1 34 HF 2332.705 81 1 35 pf/gg/5544 1 36 1 37 1 38 1 39 1 40 1 41 1 42 1 43 1 44 1 45 1 46 1 47 1 48 1 49 1 50 -1-